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finger to point him once more to his Bible-doctrine of the 

 unity of the whole human family. And, similarly, from 

 its insistence upon the unity in the Universe it supports 

 his faith in a single Creator with a single mind for all His 

 creatures. It is not all missionaries who are attacked in 

 this particular way — each has his own personal difficulties 

 in the mission-field — but some are. 



(5) Science has largely helped to develop the scientific mind 

 in the practical principles of missionary organisations and 

 workers. The widespread idea in the minds of many 

 business people — which, even though probably out of date, 

 lingers on because it often requires time for impressions 

 (as sometimes for persons) to realise that there is no longer 

 reason for them to usurp the whole field — that much 

 missionary work has been planned, financed, and conducted 

 on unscientific lines has not been without justification in 

 the past. But Science, or its anthropological side, has — 

 though it did not create it — so enormously developed the 

 study of comparative religions as to have practically 

 shifted the standpoint of missionary policy on to a new, 

 and much surer, foothold. 



(c) In the same personal connection with regard to the 

 missionary, must be noted the priceless contributions of 

 Science towards the physical health of the missionary as a 

 man. Thus the change brought about in the health-record 

 of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa during 

 recent j^ears, though the enforcement by its Medical 

 Board of the suggestions of modern Science as to the 

 sanitation of dwellings and their surroundings, the 

 frequency of furlough, the standard of health to be reached 

 before return from furlough, etc., can be described as 

 nothing short of a revolution. In the same way tells the 

 value of inoculation against plague amongst Indian 

 missionaries. And I understand that the Society for the 

 Propagation of the Gospel has so strongly realised the 

 value of inoculation against typhoid as to have considered 

 the possibility of enforcing, and to have decided upon the 

 advisability of urging, it upon all its missionaries. 

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